In her brief life (47 years) she painted approximately 200 paintings, most
of them self-portraits. "I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is
that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my
head, without any other consideration." What passed through her head and
into her art was some of the most original and dramatic imagery of the
twentieth century. Painting herself bleeding, weeping, cracked open, she
transferred her pain into art with remarkable frankness tempered by
humor and fantasy.